Identify what leadership in nursing means to you. What is your definition of a leader? Provide an example(s) of nursing leader(s) you look up to (past, present, or both).

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Nursing leadership

Introduction:
Purpose of the paper-to address the need; discuss in more detail how this essay will add to the knowledge base regarding nurse leadership

Body:
Identify what leadership in nursing means to you.
What is your definition of a leader?
Provide an example(s) of nursing leader(s) you look up to (past, present, or both).

Nursing Leadership Skills
What leadership qualities do you see within yourself (positive/negative)
What leadership qualities do you see within current nursing leaders (positive/negative)
What leadership qualities do you see within emerging nurse leaders (positive/negative)
How has your nursing education better prepared you to be a future nurse leader?

Conclusion:
Concise summary of essay, reflecting the nurse leadership topic explored

Discuss the process you undertook to gather your data (both subjective and objective). Consider the concepts that we discussed in each lecture regarding consent and what did you do to prepare the patient for the assessment.

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Professional experience essay – Patient with Tracheostomy

In this section you need to introduce your essay. You might like to introduce the nursing process here and provide the reader with an understanding of what you plan to discuss in your essay.

Introduction to the Patient

This is where you introduce your patient: this includes who they are, what brought them into hospital, their clinical course while in hospital as well as their past history and social history. Make sure to include information regarding support services they may have in place. You should also address any Advanced Care Directives as well as their resuscitation status here. If your patient has a very long list of medications, you can present the complete list as an appendix, but please refer to any specific medications linked to the patient and their presentation in this section

Head-to-toe Assessment of Patient

You need to discuss the process you undertook to gather your data (both subjective and objective). Consider the concepts that we discussed in each lecture regarding consent and what did you do to prepare the patient for the assessment. Make sure that you don’t simply omit something because it was within the normal range, and don’t simply state that it is within the normal range. You need to provide detail of the data. Students are also asked to include all data, even if on your ward they don’t routinely undertake a specific test/assessment, you are asked to still undertake the assessment and report on it.

General Assessment

This is where you can provide general patient information and well as your overall impression of the patient including their general appearance

Central Nervous System (CNS)

Here you provide the subjective and objective data that you have accumulated from your patient in regard to this particular body system.  Think here about what we learnt in lectures and labs about how we assess neurological function and report on it.

Cardiovascular System (CVS)

Here you provide the subjective and objective data that you have accumulated from your patient in regard to this particular body system.  Think here about what we learnt in lectures and labs about how you assess cardiovascular function and report on it. Remember to consider all aspects of CVS assessment.

Respiratory System

Again, provide the subjective and objective data that you have accumulated from your patient in regard to this particular body system.  Think here about what we learnt in lectures and labs about how you assess respiratory function and report on it.

Gastrointestinal System (GIT)

Again, subjective and objective data that you have accumulated from your patient in regard to this particular body system should be presented here. This about what the GIT system is and try and relate this to your particular patient. You may have been allocated to a surgical unit, your patient may have had a period of Nil by mount, alternatively they may have swallowing difficulties, these all need to be reported.  Again, think here about what we learnt in lectures and labs about how you assess GIT function and report on it.

Renal System

Present again subjective and objective data that you have accumulated from your patient in regard to this particular body system.  Think here about what we learnt in lectures and labs about how you assess renal function and report on it. Remember to consider all aspects of renal including how the patient voids as well as their fluid status.

Musculoskeletal System

How does the patient mobilize, here you should consider risk assessment are they a falls risk and what kind of assistance do they need?

Integumentary System

Think about the condition of the patient’s skin. Again, use the information from your risk assessment here. Are there any areas of concern, wounds, cuts pressure injuries, are these new?

Psychosocial Wellbeing

Consider the psychological state of your patient. Do they have any concerns in this domain?

Metabolic System

Metabolic refers to whether or not the patient is diabetic. If so you need to discuss again your subjective and objective data.

Additional systems

You can include additional headings referring to other body systems that are relevant to your patient such as haematology.

Mrs. Scalise, a 63-year-old woman, was brought to the hospital by a police officer after falling on the sidewalk. She is found to have alcoholic hepatitis. She is put on a salt- and protein-restricted diet, and diuretics are prescribed to manage her ascites (accumulated fluid in the abdominal cavity). How will diuretics reduce this excess fluid? Name and describe the mechanisms of action of three types of diuretics. Why is her salt diet restricted?

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Urinary System

Copy the following questions, add your answers, and submit them below in one attached document.

1. In your own words, explain the mechanisms that contribute to renal autoregulation.

2. Explain the purpose and processes of tubular secretion.

3. Mrs. Scalise, a 63-year-old woman, was brought to the hospital by a police officer after falling on the sidewalk. She is found to have alcoholic hepatitis. She is put on a salt- and protein-restricted diet, and diuretics are prescribed to manage her ascites (accumulated fluid in the abdominal cavity). How will diuretics reduce this excess fluid? Name and describe the mechanisms of action of three types of diuretics. Why is her salt diet restricted?

4. Explain why and how total body sodium content, ECF volume, and blood pressure are jointly regulated.

5. For each of the following sets of blood values, name the acid-base imbalance (acidosis or alkalosis), determine its cause (metabolic or respiratory), decide whether the condition is being compensated, and cite at least one possible cause for the imbalance.

Problem 1: pH = 7.63, PCO219 mm Hg, HCO3– 19.5 mEq/L

Problem 2: pH = 7.22, PCO2 30 mm Hg, HCO3- 12.0 mEq/L

Discuss each of the areas of competency listed above to demonstrate how you have applied, are applying, or plan to apply your knowledge/competencies acquired from the BSN program to your practice.

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Personal Growth, Acquired Knowledge, Competencies, and Applications

Instructions:

Reflect on your journey throughout the BSN program – specifically to your growth (academically and professionally) as well as the competencies in the areas that are tied to the program learning outcomes:

  • Professionalism
  • Ethical, legal & cultural considerations, sensitivity & practices
  • Evidence-based nursing practice and its utilization to promote, maintain, and restore health
  • Health maintenance and enhancement of patients, families, and communities
  • Leadership & Management

Compose an essay that must be a minimum of 700 words,

— describing your overall growth as to how you have grown professionally and academically from an RN to a BSN-prepared nurse. Provide some example to illustrate your narrative if necessary.

— Discuss each of the areas of competency listed above to demonstrate how you have applied, are applying, or plan to apply your knowledge/competencies acquired from the BSN program to your practice.

This essay, along with the other pieces of work required to be in your ePortfolio, will be used to determine your level of achievements of meeting all the RN-BSN program learning outcomes. Therefore, refrain from any *fillers* in this essay but be clear, concise, direct, and specific to your reflection and examples.

 

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.

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Collaboration Cafe: Communication in Project Management

Think about all of the stakeholders and colleagues that must be kept up to date on the status of your project. The recipient of your communication may be upstream (higher on the organizational chart), lateral (an equal organizationally), or downstream (i.e. end user) in relation to the project. A student in a prior CGE course compared communication in project management to the five rights of medication administration…we need to give:

The right person
The right information
(via) the right route
(at) the right time
(in) the right dose

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.

Write a learn note on safe medication application on Congestive Heart Failure patients in the cardiology unit in the hospital setting and what precautions you could take as a nurse before administering any medication prescribed to this patient. Explain at least four common medications that CHF patients use and why?

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LEARN NOTE

Write a learn note on safe medication application on Congestive Heart Failure patients in the cardiology unit in the hospital setting and what precautions you could take as a nurse before administering any medication prescribed to this patient. Also, explain at least four common medications that CHF patients use and why? Use 3 peer-reviewed articles to complete this assignment. Watch these two videos to guide you and help you better understand CHF and nursing interventions for safe medication administration.

Videos link:

What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?

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Focused SOAP Note for Schizophrenia Spectrum, Other Psychotic, and Medication-Induced Movement Disorders

Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the insights they provide about assessing, diagnosing, and treating schizophrenia spectrum, other psychotic, and medication-induced movement disorders.

Photo Credit: Getty Images/Wavebreak Media

Review the Focused SOAP Note template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. There is also a Focused SOAP Note Exemplar provided as a guide for Assignment expectations.

Review the video, Case Study: Sherman Tremaine. You will use this case as the basis of this Assignment. In this video, a Walden faculty member is assessing a mock patient. The patient will be represented onscreen as an avatar.

Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.

Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.

The Assignment

Develop a focused SOAP note, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate a primary diagnosis. Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:

Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?

Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?

Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, and list them in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5 criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.

Plan: What is your plan for psychotherapy? What is your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan. Also incorporate one health promotion activity and one patient education strategy.

Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this patient if you could conduct the session again? Discuss what your next intervention would be if you were able to follow up with this patient. Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion, and disease prevention, taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

Provide at least three evidence-based, peer-reviewed journal articles or evidenced-based guidelines that relate to this case to support your diagnostics and differential diagnoses. Be sure they are current (no more than 5 years old).

Critically analyse the impact of the mental health condition on the psychosocial wellbeing of the client and whanau. Critique how well your chosen theory or model of care enhanced this client’s quality of life toward recovery

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Task one: 1000 words Case Study
Integrate a clinical case study to provide a brief overview of the client including neuroscience and psychopathology diagnosis, and the mental health and psychosocial assessments undertaken.
• Critically analyse the impact of the mental health condition on the psychosocial well being of the client and whanau.
• Critique how well your chosen theory or model of care enhanced this client’s quality of life toward recovery
• Critically analyse whether the use of theories or models of care are appropriate for the delivery of care in a mental health setting
• Word count 1000.

Use the client 1(see attached file client1) for this case study. Consider using the CHIME frame work and CBT therapy for this client. Create some scenarios to meet the assignment requirement. Please refer to attached the examples given(LO 6 example Tidal-wrap and LO6 example CBT) .

Task two: 2 reflection or case study (1000 each) which illustrate how the 4 learning outcomes (see attached nursing competencies self-assessment) were achieved in practice. GIBBS reflection cycle can be used. You can use any of the three clients provided. The 2 pieces of writing need to cover all 4 domains of learning outcomes. Please indicate clearly which items are achieved in the writing, such as 1.1, 1.2, 2.5……see the student sample work. You can refer to my self-assessment form and my clinical educator’s comment on me, but you surely need to create some scenarios and stories for this.

Critically analysis wound management practices in the workplace, taking account of national policy initiatives, local practice, technological advances and relevant research evidence. Evaluate wound management practices in the workplace, taking account of national policy initiatives, local practice, technological advances and/or relevant research evidence.

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The Management of a Diabetic Foot Ulcer with Osteomyelitis

The purpose of this assessment is to enable students to enhance their learning and demonstrate critical analysis relevant to the care and treatment of patients with either acute or chronic wounds. It requires students to undertake an up-to-date review of the literature relating to an identified wound care issue and critically analyse it in the light of evidence. The students will also be expected to make recommendations for future practice within their current practice area.

Your assignment should include:

  • Rationale for your choice of issue
  • Critical analysis and synthesis of relevant literature
  • Recommendations for future clinical practice based on your literature review.
  • Satisfactory

Learning Outcome 2: Critically analysis wound management practices in the workplace, taking account of national policy initiatives, local practice, technological advances and relevant research evidence. Evaluate wound management practices in the workplace, taking account of national policy initiatives, local practice, technological advances and/or relevant research evidence.

Learning Outcome 4: Reflect on your clinical practice in tissue viability and communicate ideas and solutions on how best practice in tissue viability can be maintained. Based on the findings of your evidence consider how this relates to your clinical practice.

Write a 2000 words essay that critically appraises the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the Professional Nursing Advocate in relation to enhancing self-efficacy and personal effectiveness to support safe and effective nursing practice and improving mental wellbeing / practice outcomes.

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Reflective summative assignment

Write a 2000 words essay that critically appraises the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the Professional Nursing Advocate in relation to enhancing self-efficacy and personal effectiveness to support safe and effective nursing practice and improving mental well being / practice outcomes.